Inexorable leftist gibbering from someone somewhere. || "Our press, which you appear to regard as being free ... is the most enslaved and the vilest thing." -- William Cobbett. || “Tridents (sic) are not weapons of mass destruction.” -- Nadine Dorries MP

Ack. I must be getting old. There was a time when I'd have been yelling to anyone who'd listen about the penetrating awfulness of every act even nominated for the mercury prize. I've never even heard of Speech Debelle. But so long as fucking Kasabian didn't get a look in, I'm not all that bothered.

I'm still giving the Mercury Prize its 10 year free pass for giving the award to PJ Harvey in 2001. I find it's always a 50/50 thing for me, for every M People or Miss Dynamite or Klaxons there's a PJ Harvey or Dizzee Rascal or Antony and the Johnsons.

I wouldn't have minded The Horrors winning this year anyway. And Wild Beasts in 2010 please!